Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A New Conundrum in the Bond Market? – Federal Reserve
- Maybe Bitcoin Isn’t Untouchable at J.P. Morgan After All – WSJ
- Commodities Facing Another Tough Year in 2018, JPMorgan Says – Bloomberg
- Austerity and household debt: a macro link? – Critical Finance
- Risk Parity: How Much Data Should We Use When Estimating Volatilities and Correlations? – Think Newfound
- Antarctica’s doomsday glaciers could be more vulnerable than we thought – Grist
- CME’s Bitcoin Futures Likely to Start Trading December 11 – Coin Desk
Americas:
- Federal banking agencies finalize extension of certain capital rule transitions – Federal Reserve
- Student Loans Not a Macro Problem – The Big Picture
- Will your taxes go up or down? The five biggest questions on the GOP plan – Washington Post
- Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination – VOX
- Murkowski says she backs Obamacare mandate repeal – Politico
- What limiting foreign trade would mean for the U.S. economy – PBS
- Graduate Students Are Terrified by the Republican Tax Plan – NY Mag
- The debt time bomb that keeps growing and now equals nearly half of US GDP – CNBC
- Janet Yellens true legacy is her focus on middleclass wages – MarketWatch
- Europe:
- Construction crew unearths giant concrete swastika – CBS
- Russian ’troll army’ tweets cited more than 80 times in UK media – The Guardian
- That ‘harmless’ radioactive cloud over Europe probably did come from Russia after all – Washington Post
- Mario Monti: EU should adopt English post Brexit – Politico
- 5 takeaways from the race to host EU agencies after Brexit – Politico
- UK factories enjoy best month for new orders since 1988 – CBI – Reuters
Asia:
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- U.S. Readies Trade Sledgehammer for China – WSJ
- Trump’s coming hard line on China – Lowy Institute
- China’s Debt Surge May Increase Risk of Financial Crisis – Bloomberg
- Hedge Funds Demand Chinese Buyers Pay More in M&A Deals – Bloomberg
- Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index Rises Above 30,000 to Decade-High – Bloomberg
- Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau mega bridge project set to exceed budget by more than HK$11 billion – SCMP
- Japan plans first-ever cutback to 40-year bond floats – Nikkei Asian Review
Trans-Tasman:
- Gina Rinehart hands Barnaby Joyce a $40,000 National Agriculture Day award – Weekly Times
- Gina Rinehart awards Barnaby Joyce $40,000 for being ‘champion of industry’ – The Guardian
- Centrelink to use 1,000 labour-hire staff to help recover welfare debts. – The Guardian
- The Amazon Effect: JB Hi-Fi Now Offers Same-Day Delivery – Life Hacker
- Philip Ruddock appointed to conduct review of Australia’s religious freedoms – The SMH
- China will finance Adani mine, insiders say, but it will cost Australian jobs – ABC
- ‘Terrible’ NBN advertising is continuing despite watchdog crackdown, says consumer group – The SMH
- Housing market looks bloated with borrowers on ‘wafer-thin’ margins – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull rules out banking royal commission despite backbench pressure – The SMH
- Cabinet has considered allowing banking inquiry – Scott Morrison – The Guardian
- Why young Australians are getting stuck in low-paid jobs for longer – ABC
- Revealed: Alan Tudge’s department knew of Medicare breaches prior to bombshell report – New Daily
- Queensland renewable energy jobs double in four months – Brisbane Times
- Turnbull wants to take middle income earners’ income tax both up and down – The Conversation
- Citizenship pledge would be encouraged in schools under a federal Labor government – ABC
- Fact check: Did Queensland see its largest fall in jobs on record last year? – ABC
- Senior public servant says Australia’s delivery of policy ‘in palliative care’ – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull fights to restore calm, amid growing discontent – Brisbane Times
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Will a cut in immigration choke off the provinces? – Interest.co.nz
- This could be a difficult summer for lifestyle block land bankers – Interest.co.nz
- NZ minister clarifies that Australians must have lived in NZ for 3 years before qualifying for free tertiary education – NZ herald
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